Can we stop pretending that it's not the best From game now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nqrfSTOUKc

Always has been. If DS1 didn't have Tomb of Giants, Demon Ruins, Lost Izalith and Crystal Cave it would have won, though.

BB = Sekiro > DS1 > Elden Ring > DS2 > Demon's Souls > King's Field > Eternal Ring > DS3

>>713347160
you don't get to complain about locations when a pile of shit ones saved by a few memorable bosses is all ds3 is

it's the game that introduced the asinine word filters (K***ht), password summoning and weapon level matchmaking
so it's ok if you're a tourist

ds2 was the first bell of dogshit
ds3 was the second

>>713345683 (OP)
No but we can stop pretending it's not the worst and didn't introduce a mass of insufferable faggots into the fanbase

>>713345683 (OP)
The worst is Elden Ring.

The open-world slop has got to go. I’m pretty sure at least 20 hours of my 120-hour playthrough were spent just running around on that dumb goat. And for what? The world isn’t actually fun or rewarding to explore. Most of it just isn’t worth it. At best, it’s Ubisoft-style filler dressed up with a nicer art style. Stop wasting my time with this kind of design. I’d much rather have a shorter game with big dungeons or castles that you explore on foot instead of riding that goat around in circles.

Im not even gonna bother playing the sequel if its more open world slop.

>>713348434
Those are all good except the name censors.

>>713345683 (OP)
Demons Souls vets hate it because it turned a series into what was once about outsmarting your enemies and thinking like an adventurer, into a simple minded hack n slash where you press the roll button at the right time.

>>713350187
no, they just serve to fracture the playerbase without fixing the twinking issue
if nothing else they should've went all the way and introduced weapon level scaling instead. scale the weapon down to the highest in the host's inventory, boom
hell, scale the invader's level down as well if they're overleveled and there's no one to invade.
i understand their scaling mechanism is dogshit at the moment but it just needs some number tweaks
the series has made some seriously baffling decisions in its 15 years but no one seems to care enough about this stuff because they don't appreciate the only thing these shitty games still have going for them - the uniqie multiplayer aspect

ds3 is a great action game

it's a terrible souls game

for me the defining feature of dark souls was the interconnected world with no warping for most of it so I don't even consider 2 and 3 true sequels as they never gave me the sense of adventure present in 1

diehard DeS fans who dislike ds1's structure would probably be upset if the game was called DeS2 instead

>>713345683 (OP)
>Have to pull out all the stops to ship DaS2 as a functional game
>For some fucking reason they reinclude every corner cutting measure from DaS2 back into DaS3, but they also cut out every instance of feature creep from DaS2 and replace it with more cornercutting
From games won't be good until they stop including checkpoint warping from the start of the game that can hit every checkpoint.
>>713347160
DaS3 may as well be over after you get to path of sacrifices, everything after that is shit that I could not bring myself to replay.

>>713345683 (OP)
For me it was the floaty ragdolls, floaty combat, clipping, and NPC mouths not moving when they spoke.

SLOP

tl;dr uninstall.exe

>>713345683 (OP)
OP here, wrong pic

>>713347434
and even then, it's like

10/10 > 9.5/10 > 9.4/10 > 9.3/10 > 9.2/10 > 9.1/10 > 9.05/10 > 9/10

>OP here, wrong pic